Tangata is a genus of Polynesian araneomorph spiders in the family Orsolobidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster & Norman I. Platnick in 1985.
Species
it contains seventeen species, found only in New Zealand:
- Tangata alpina <small>(Forster, 1956)</small> â New Zealand
- Tangata furcata <small>Forster & Platnick, 1985</small> â New Zealand
- Tangata horningi <small>Forster & Platnick, 1985</small> â New Zealand
- Tangata kohuka <small>Forster & Platnick, 1985</small> â New Zealand
- Tangata murihiku <small>Forster & Platnick, 1985</small> â New Zealand
- Tangata nigra <small>Forster & Platnick, 1985</small> (type) â New Zealand
- Tangata orepukiensis <small>(Forster, 1956)</small> â New Zealand
- Tangata otago <small>Forster & Platnick, 1985</small> â New Zealand
- Tangata parafurcata <small>Forster & Platnick, 1985</small> â New Zealand
- Tangata plena <small>(Forster, 1956)</small> â New Zealand
- Tangata pouaka <small>Forster & Platnick, 1985</small> â New Zealand
- Tangata rakiura <small>(Forster, 1956)</small> â New Zealand
- Tangata stewartensis <small>(Forster, 1956)</small> â New Zealand
- Tangata sylvester <small>Forster & Platnick, 1985</small> â New Zealand
- Tangata tautuku <small>Forster & Platnick, 1985</small> â New Zealand
- Tangata townsendi <small>Forster & Platnick, 1985</small> â New Zealand
- Tangata waipoua <small>Forster & Platnick, 1985</small> â New Zealand
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